{"id":3416,"date":"2021-02-19T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.us\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2023-10-17T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:10:15","slug":"crate-or-play-pen-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/crate-or-play-pen-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Crate or play pen training"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Crate or play pen training<\/h2>\n<p>A crate, indoor kennel or puppy pen can be a really helpful piece of equipment when training your puppy. While many people don\u2019t like the idea of crates as they believe it is wrong to put a dog in a cage, if you think of the crate like you would a child\u2019s playpen you may have a better appreciation of its potential use.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the crate <strong>must always be a positive and comfortable place for your puppy<\/strong> to spend time in. Not only should it contain a comfy bed, but also lots of fun toys and tasty chew items. Your puppy should be introduced to the crate gradually and encouraged rather than forced to use it. Once they get the idea that it is a fun place to be, you can put your puppy in there for <strong>short periods<\/strong> throughout the day. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you are busy and can\u2019t supervise your puppy<\/li>\n<li>When your puppy is tired and needs to have a sleep<\/li>\n<li>To give him a time out from attention from children or other pets<\/li>\n<li>To give other pets and children some time out from the puppy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You should <strong>never use the crate as a punishment,<\/strong> or your puppy will become confused and not enjoy spending time in there. This will mean they will be less likely to settle when you try and leave them. That said, once your puppy is comfortable with their crate or play pen as a sleeping area, this can be really helpful for house training.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crate or play pen training\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-PM3Dm-QSA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crate or play pen training A crate, indoor kennel or puppy pen can be a really helpful piece of equipment when training your puppy. While many people don\u2019t like the idea of crates as they believe it is wrong to put a dog in a cage, if you think of the crate like you would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6051,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-puppy-training","content-training","behaviour-puppy-travel","behaviour-puppy-training","behaviour-travel","content-entity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20069,"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/20069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/companyofanimals.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}